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Installing Moodle 2.7 on CentOS 6.5 (with PHP 5.3.3)?

by Séverin Terrier - Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 3:56 PM

Hi developpers,

Our server is running CentOS 6.5, with PHP 5.3.3, and i have a question :

I know that Moodle 2.7 requires PHP 5.4.4, but Does Moodle 2.7 really use some PHP 5.4.4 features?

If not, i suppose it could be possible to use PHP 5.3.3 (cheating the installer), the time for CentOS 7.0 to be there?

I ask because our server admin preferes avoiding non standard packages from other repos.

Thanks for your answers,

Séverin

Re: Installing Moodle 2.7 on CentOS 6.5 (with PHP 5.3.3)?

by Davo Smith - Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 5:43 PM

From a quick look at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php

Yes, some of the new code uses the 'traits' feature, so PHP 5.4 is required.

I'm also very much looking forward to being able to use the foo()[0] syntax (for referencing arrays returned by functions) and $a = [1, 2, 3] (for instantiating arrays).

Re: Installing Moodle 2.7 on CentOS 6.5 (with PHP 5.3.3)?

by Geoffrey Rowland - Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 7:31 PM

I note the comment "your server admin prefers avoiding non-standard packages" but I have always found the Remi repositories to be a reliable source of more up-to-date PHP, MySQL etc for RedHat/CentOS/Fedora.

http://rpms.famillecollet.com

Re: Installing Moodle 2.7 on CentOS 6.5 (with PHP 5.3.3)?

by Martín Langhoff - Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 10:49 PM

Remi Collet is the official maintainer of PHP in Fedora, so he ends up being the author of the packages in RHEL. He has his unofficial (but top-notch) repository of PHP 5.4 and 5.5 for EL6.